Clearing Messages in a RabbitMQ Queue

Notes and Constraints

• All the messages in the queue will be deleted permanently and cannot be restored. Exercise caution.

Prerequisite

A queue has been created.

Clearing Messages in a Queue (Console)

1. Log in to the console.
2. Click in the upper left corner to select the region where your instance is located.
3. Click in the upper left corner and choose Application > Distributed Message Service for RabbitMQ to open the RabbitMQ instance list.
4. Click an instance name to go to the instance details page.
5. In the navigation pane, choose Instance > Virtual Hosts.
6. Click a virtual host name.
7. On the Queue tab page, click Clear Message in the row containing the desired queue. The Clear Message dialog box is displayed.
   

   All the messages in the queue will be deleted permanently and cannot be restored. Exercise caution.

8. Click OK.

Clearing Messages in a Queue (RabbitMQ Management UI)

1. Log in to the RabbitMQ management UI.
2. On the Queues tab page, click the name of a queue.
   Figure 1 Queues
   

3. Click Purge Messages to remove messages from the queue.
   Figure 2 Clearing messages in a queue
   
   

   All the messages in the queue will be deleted permanently and cannot be restored. Exercise caution.